News report – or are reporters biased

Was watching BBC world news report on an Anti-Coup rally in Bangkok when the reporter said something that annoyed me:
“It will be very interesting to see how long the army will allow this rally”

Translation (by Avi): “I really hope the army will intervene. It will look great on TV”

I may interpret it wrong, but it did sound to me like the reporter wanted something to happen, to be able to report a conflict, to be in the news.

Just in case, let me tell you how I would have reported it : “As this rally is illegal, there are concerns on the army actions”.

Army dispersing a demonstration is not “Interesting”.

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